'Canadian Psycho' Magnotta leaves trail in Paris

'Canadian Psycho' Magnotta leaves trail in Paris

Journalists stand in front of a hotel in Bagnolet, near Paris, on June 3, 2012, where witnesses said they saw Luka Rocco Magnotta. French police said they have been scouring Paris for the Canadian gay porn actor suspected of killing and carving up a Chinese man as his video camera rolled.

A friend may have alerted police to Luka Rocco Magnotta’s whereabouts in Paris as the alleged “Canadian Psycho” attempts to flee an international manhunt.

The 29-year-old suspect in the murder of Chinese student Lin Jun departed for Paris on May 26, a day after he posted video of the killing, dismemberment and cannibalism of the body online.

Witnesses are flooding Paris police phone lines with tips about the man’s whereabouts, including an acquaintance, the Globe and Mail said.

“He came and knocked on my door, he said he wanted to end the night with an after-party with us,” one woman told RMC Radio in Paris, the Globe reported. “Someone warned me he was in the neighbourhood, so I looked on the internet and confirmed it. I’m certain it was him. It gave me shivers.”

Police believe Magnotta stuffed Lin’s headlines corpse into a suitcase and dumped it with the garbage outside his apartment building.

The Canadian Conservative party received Lin’s foot in the mail, and his hand was en route to the Liberals before police found it at a Canada Post outlet.

He’s earned the nickname “Canadian Psycho” because music from the film “American Psycho” played in the background of the video.